Keep Your Garlic And Wooden Stake Handy As Possible Vampire Is Attacking SEC
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By Cody McClure
Today must be “Take a Shot at the SEC Day” based on some of these coach quotes coming out.
The SEC is catching some heat as the ACC and Big Ten begin to conduct their respective media days.
Curt Cignetti is running his mouth. Rhett Lashlee is running his mouth. I’m sure other coaches are too.
We’ll start with Cignetti, the coach of the Indiana Hoosiers:
I don’t know what it is about Curt Cignetti that I don’t like, but it’s something.
He gives me vampire vibes. It wouldn’t surprise me if he is one. Keep your garlic and your wooden stake handy if you’re around him.
Or maybe he’s just a smug asshole. That’s probably more likely.
What is this dude talking about?
As many people have pointed out online already, Texas is playing AT Ohio State this year. LSU is playing AT Clemson. Alabama is playing AT Florida State. Texas A&M is playing AT Notre Dame. Florida is playing AT Miami.
Must I continue? I will…
South Carolina is playing Virginia Tech, Tennessee is playing Syracuse, Arkansas is playing Notre Dame, Oklahoma is playing Michigan… the list goes on.
I wonder who Indiana has scheduled outside the conference.
OH it’s Old Dominion, Kennesaw State, and Indiana State.
But what about last year?
I’m glad you asked. Florida International, Western Illinois, and Charlotte.
I don’t wanna hear any shit from this guy about schedules. What a damn hypocrite.
The guy is scared to play VIRGINIA.
I don’t understand how you can criticize a conference for its teams scheduling roughly one FCS game per year when that’s your schedule.
“Oh but the SEC only plays eight league games.”
Indiana’s league schedule last year: UCLA, Maryland, Northwestern, Nebraska, Washington, Michigan State, Michigan, Ohio State, Purdue.
The Hoosiers did not play a single top 25 team until November 23rd.
They lost that game 38-15.
Shut up, Curt Cignetti.
I wasn’t nearly as triggered by what Lashlee said because to be honest, I didn’t even know he was the coach of SMU.
I refused to acknowledge the Mustangs after they stole a playoff bid last year despite beating absolutely nobody.
But hey, at least they lost a close game to Clemson.
Here’s what Lashlee said:
“The SEC has had the same six schools win the championship since 1964. Not a single one has been different since 1964. That’s top-heavy to me. That’s not depth.”
What a dumb quote.
Is this a fact? Yes, it is a fact.
Another fact is that for a great number of years in which Lashlee is talking about (1964-91), the SEC had 10 teams.
Then — for the next 20 years — the SEC had 12 teams. It was only very recently the SEC went to 14 and then 16 teams.
So I guess it’s convenient to Lashlee’s argument to say only six have won championships if he is trying to weirdly convince us that 16 have had a chance to win the conference for all those years.
Six out of ten winning the conference or six out of twelve wouldn’t quite hit the same way.
Hell, that might even sound more like… depth.